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I think Markdown avoids angle brackets because angle brackets are frequently used for inline HTML. Sure, Markdown could look at the content of each pair of brac
by kijin 15y ago
I think Markdown avoids angle brackets because angle brackets are frequently used for inline HTML. Sure, Markdown could look at the content of each pair of brackets and try to figure out whether it's a link or a valid HTML tag, but that would introduce a lot of complexity and it won't always work given the diversity of tags and URL schemes.
- fiddlosopher 15y agoSince angle brackets are used for "automatic links" in markdown (http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#autolink http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#autolink), a markdown processor already has to look at the contents.